Silkwood (1983)

Silkwood, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep, Cher, and Kurt Russell, is a 1983 American biographical drama film. Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen developed the script from the book Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Rolling Stone journalist and activist Howard Kohn, which chronicled Karen Silkwood's life. Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and labor organizer who was killed in a vehicle accident while probing suspected malfeasance at the Kerr-McGee plutonium factory where she worked. In actual life, her death prompted attorney Gerry Spence to file Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee in 1979.

This Mike Nichols–directed, Nora Ephron–penned biographical drama about labor organizer and whistleblower Karen Silkwood, who exposed dangerous working conditions in a plutonium manufacturing factory, was the only Streep performance to make AFI's 100 Heroes & Villains list. Karen is an ordinary woman who just wants to make things right, and it's impossible not to root for this compelling crusader. This isn't some morality play with an angelic heroine railing against a corrupt system; Karen is an ordinary woman — often prickly, obsessive, and polarizing — who just wants to make things right, and it's impossible not to root for her.

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Directed by: Mike Nichols

Release date: December 14, 1983

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086312